It's a rainy afternoon here in Wilkes-Barre, PA. We drove all night from our (slightly crappy) show in Toledo to get here and rest, but since I slept a ton in the van, I'm out exploring a little and using the hospitality of the public library to check email and whatnot. The town's a bit dingy, but it's really hard to tell with all the rain.

We had a day off in Columbus a couple days ago, and Ryan from Catbirdseat.org came out for a night on the town that included visiting a haunted bar, filling the jukebox with good songs, going to the 80's club and dancing our socks off, and a lot of beer and Jagermeister all around. Ryan kept buying us drinks, and we kept drinking them until closing time sometime around 3:00 AM. We lost Ryan after that, but headed back to the apartment we were staying in and Rory cooked up some late-night enchiladas for us. Such good times, although Ryan had a few too many and later sent this email to Kate:

Good Morning from Chicago! Tour is going rather well, we're meeting lots of great people and having a good time listening to David Cross in the van, as well as playing some shows too. Denver was awesome, and St. Louis was crazy (the club owner began shooting a doll hanging from the ceiling with a .38 as we were loading the van to go, we got out of there FAST), and Chicago was/is cold, but a lot of fun. Off to Ohio today, and more updates come Philadelphia.